Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Infra-Order: Epicaridea
Family: Fabidae
Genus: Faba
Species: glabra
Faba glabra has been described in the 1930s from Hawaii, but remains very poorly known; it's one of the weirdest, highly derived parasitic isopods, with a stalk furnished with tiny hooks; these two specimens (shrimp host + attached isopod) are from French Polynesia
Tags: Moorea French Polynesia parasite parasitism shrimp Isopoda Faba Fabidae Epicaridea isopod parasitic stalk Crustacea crustaceans Malacostraca glabra Alpheus Alpheidae Caridea Decapoda Peracarida
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Tags: Florida Keys Isopoda Crustacea crustaceans parasitic parasite Bopyridae Epicaridea bopyrid isopod USA
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a hyperiid amphipod in its host salp, Moorea
Tags: French Polynesia Moorea Biocode Crustacea crustaceans macro nature marine invertebrates salp Phronimidae amphipod Amphipoda parasite parasitism
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identified by my colleagues as hyperparasitic isopod, Cabirops sp
Tags: French Polynesia Biocode marine invertebrates project Isopoda hyper-parasite hyper-parasitism Crustacea crustaceans parasite Moorea macro nature
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Tags: French Polynesia Biocode marine invertebrates project Caridea shrimps Decapoda Moorea shrimp Palaemonidae Pontoniinae
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